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001			ocn861199884
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105428.0
008			131021r20072005njuab ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dIDEBK _dJSTOR _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dEBLCP _dDEBSZ _dOCLCQ _dAGLDB _dZCU _dMERUC _dOCLCQ _dIOG _dDEGRU _dDEBBG _dTEFOD
020			_a9781400849314 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aE58 _b.F677 2007
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMayor, Adrienne, _d1946- _e1
245	1	0	_aFossil legends of the first Americans /Adrienne Mayor.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. ; _aWoodstock : _bPrinceton University Press, _c(c)2007, 2005.
300			_a1 online resource (xxxix, 446 pages) : _billustrations, 1 map
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
500			_aOriginally published: 2005.
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aMarsh monsters of big bone lick -- _tThe northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- _tNew Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- _tThe southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- _tThe prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- _tThe high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- _tCommon ground -- _tFossil frauds and specious legends.
520	0		_a"The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed."--Publisher's description.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aIndians _xAntiquities.
650		0	_aIndians _vFolklore.
650		0	_aFossils _zAmerica _xHistory.
650		0	_aFossils _zAmerica _vFolklore.
650		0	_aTales _zAmerica.
650		0	_aPaleontology _zAmerica.
650		0	_aPaleoanthropology _zAmerica.
650		4	_aFossils _zAmerica _xFolklore.
650		4	_aFossils _zAmerica _xHistory.
650		4	_aFossils.
650		4	_aIndians _xAntiquities.
650		4	_aIndians _xFolklore.
650		4	_aIndians.
650		4	_aPaleoanthropology _zAmerica.
650		4	_aPaleoanthropology.
650		4	_aPaleontology _zAmerica.
650		4	_aPaleontology.
650		4	_aSocial Sciences.
650		4	_aSociology, other.
650		4	_aSociology.
650		4	_aTales _zAmerica.
650		4	_aTales.
650		4	_aBräuche, Etikette, Folklore.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=644643&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hE _m2007, 2005 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell